Research Interests
- Breathing pattern variance (e.g. for anxiety and stress) and breathing training
- Emotion regulation
- Sensory perception and its relation to mental health
- Social cognition
- Operation aftercare (for rescue workers to be able to cope better with difficult operations and to provide better psychological first aid)
Academic and Professional Career
Beruflicher Werdegang
since 12/ 22 Academic employee at the Chair of Clinical and Biological Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Mannheim 2020 – 2023 Research assistant (from 12/ 22 visiting scientist) as project manager in our own DFG project to evaluate a breathing-centered intervention program in the clinical psychology department at the Central Institute for Mental Health, Mannheim 2019 – 2020 Research assistant in the EU project on the influence of genetic markers on the tryptophan system and social cognition in the Department of Differential and Biological Psychology and the Center for Economics & Neuroscience (CENs) at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn 2016 – 2019 Research assistant in an EU project on the influence of a diet rich in tryptophan on social cognition in the clinical psychology department at the Central Institute for Mental Health, Mannheim 2010 – 2016 Research assistant in a project on rumination and mindfulness in the clinical psychology department at the Central Institute for Mental Health, Mannheim Akademischer Werdegang
2018 Doctorate at the Mannheim Medical Faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg with the title: ‘Back to the roots: the role of sensory sensitivity and respiration pattern variability in mental health’ 2007–2010 Studied psychology at University of Mannheim; Bachelor of Science in Psychology 2005 Stay abroad in Central America, Universidad de Costa Rica, DAAD scholarship 2001–2007 Studied Biology at University of Ulm; Diploma in Biologie bis 2001 Abitur and FSJ in Augsburg Publications and Conference Contributions